Would you identify with your architecture?
If you were to take 5 minutes and flip through your portfolio of architecture work, unbuilt and built, what would you see?
Regionalism attempts to create architecture that associates with a specific time and place. Critical regionalism attempts to create architecture that comments critically on that time and place.
It takes a step back, takes a look around, "defamiliarizes," and attempts to be thoughtful.
How do you design? What strategies emerge as themes within your architectural typology. Have you attempted to take a step back and look at the compilation of work that you've done to better understand how you think, process, create, and design?
I would argue that critical regionalism encourages us to do just this. Think critically about your work and the work happening around you.
If your architectural work alone defined you as a person, would you be happy about it?
Regionalism attempts to create architecture that associates with a specific time and place. Critical regionalism attempts to create architecture that comments critically on that time and place.
It takes a step back, takes a look around, "defamiliarizes," and attempts to be thoughtful.
How do you design? What strategies emerge as themes within your architectural typology. Have you attempted to take a step back and look at the compilation of work that you've done to better understand how you think, process, create, and design?
I would argue that critical regionalism encourages us to do just this. Think critically about your work and the work happening around you.
If your architectural work alone defined you as a person, would you be happy about it?
I think your post brings up an interesting perspective. The idea of your architecture identifying you as a person is something I had not thought of before. I feel like my style of architecture has been different for each project that I have done, but the more I think about it, while my physical design has been drastically different from project to project, the way I approach solving the problem is very similar. So perhaps I could take a second look and analyze my work to help find an underlying trend that perhaps describes me as an architect and a designer.
ReplyDeleteThis is an awesome post! As architects, really in any profession, I think a critical component will be reflection and making sure we are walking the walk and not just talking the talk.
ReplyDeleteI have never thought of my previous work in this manner. So many great questions to ask what makes my architecture or design style special. I do wonder if I am a regionalist in my design as I may not be as traveled as most. I'm not sure yet but I do hope to look at these question someday with my work and reflect.
ReplyDeleteIt's so easy to never look back. It seems like we should always take a minute and reflect on our past actions and how they got us to where we are, but I'm willing to bet most of us never do.
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